[Judeo-Arabic commentary on Daniel 9-12; Judeo-Arabic essay on messianic eras] : manuscript

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1000s

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Adler.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Messianic era (Judaism) -- Early works to 1800; Jewish sermons, Hebrew -- Early works to 1800; Jewish sermons, Hebrew; Hanukkah -- Early works to 1800; Hanukkah; Messianic era (Judaism)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Commentaries

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): non-consecutive; loss in lower exterior corner

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Fol. 1 appears to be from a preface to the essay, or perhaps unrelated to the essay, on fol. 2 (written in the same hand); it contains praise to God, and covers the recto and top two lines of the verso, in large characters in well-spaced lines; The remainder of the verso bears shorthand notes in a different hand, possibly preparatory notes for a sermon, starting with Song of Solomon I 3, leading to Exodus IV 30-31.; Fol. 2 is from a historosophic essay in Judeo-Arabic, on Messianic eras, subdivided into numbered end period's (קצים a term based on Daniel XI 13 as in Saʹadia Gaon's Kitāb al-Amānāt wa'l-iʹtikādāt VII 3-5).; This folio contains the end of a discussion on the seventh such period, that of the Hasmonean era, citing Talmud Shabbat 21b (introduced as in the late Gaonic monographs: קאל אלחכ) including the baraita there on lighting the Hanukkah Lamp.; This is followed by the eighth era, the future salvation alluded to in Daniel XII 6-13; this essay may be an expanded subtopic in a work whose subject is Daniel (or at least the visions in Daniel XI-XII), a literary structure common in Saʹadia's works.; The essay is followed by another, under the heading וישם פניו (Daniel XI 17), expounding on the vision in Daniel XI 17-24, attributing it to the Moslem era. He mentions מחמד ומלך אלאסלאם.; Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 62

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)